Breaking the fast in Ramadan for approximately twenty days due to illness, and giving food to the poor as fidyah, which apparently does not equal what the Qur'an ordered; what is the ruling?
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The questioner : I broke my fast in Ramadan for approximately twenty days due to illness and gave food to the poor as fidyah, and it appears that this fidyah does not equal what the Qur'an ordered. What is the ruling regarding that?
The Shaykh : If your breaking of the fast in Ramadan was due to an illness that is not expected to end, then it is obligatory for you to pay the fidyah, as is well known. The fidyah is feeding one poor person for each day, and feeding one poor person for each day is done in two ways:
The first way is to prepare a lunch or dinner and invite the poor people to it, in a number equal to the number of days he owes.
The second way is to feed them rice or wheat, and each person should receive one kilogram of wheat or rice, or approximately one kilogram. This is if the illness is not expected to end.
As for if it is an illness that is expected to end, then it is obligatory to wait until Allah cures him, and then he fasts, due to the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Baqarah 2:185].
The Shaykh : If your breaking of the fast in Ramadan was due to an illness that is not expected to end, then it is obligatory for you to pay the fidyah, as is well known. The fidyah is feeding one poor person for each day, and feeding one poor person for each day is done in two ways:
The first way is to prepare a lunch or dinner and invite the poor people to it, in a number equal to the number of days he owes.
The second way is to feed them rice or wheat, and each person should receive one kilogram of wheat or rice, or approximately one kilogram. This is if the illness is not expected to end.
As for if it is an illness that is expected to end, then it is obligatory to wait until Allah cures him, and then he fasts, due to the saying of Allah the Exalted: